Have you read what AAA members are writing about on The Huffington Post? There are more than 40 AAA members who are contributing to the AAA Huffington Post blog throughout this year on a variety of anthropological topics.

Applied & Visual Anthropologist Gia M. Hamilton IS The Off The Grid Socialite

The Off the Grid Socialite, is a socially and ecologically conscious individual, she is a mother who cares about her children’s environment, health and wellbeing, she also enjoys intellectual sparring, arts and cultural events, a good medicinal…

Not exactly the place that comes to mind for most people when they think of hotbeds of gay activism. But in fact, this small, formerly communist nation is currently exploding with advocacy and public debate about gay issues.

After years of argument a half-dozen states and the District of Columbia have legalized same-sex marriage. Several more, including my own, are considering it. Meanwhile, Republican presidential candidates, right-wing columnists and talk show hosts, evangelical pastors, and recently even Pope Benedict have called upon Americans to halt…

We will be hearing a lot about debt between now and the U.S. presidential election. What will likely be absent in the debate, however, is any consideration of the relationship of debt to the requirement for perpetual economic growth and its role in the dramatic

Steven Spielberg’s latest heroic film, War Horse, is ultimately a sentimental love story between a young English man and his horse — a magnificent chestnut thoroughbred named Joey. Both man and horse go off to battle in World War I, get separated and barely survive the…

The United States is about to enter into another round of negotiations with Iran. Previous attempts have been limited and unproductive. One major difficulty is that Iranians and Americans after 40 years of estrangement have forgotten how to talk to each other.

A recent report from Human Rights Watch describes the situation of Afghan women who are jailed for committing “moral crimes.” These women are accused of running away from abusive husbands or of committing adultery, while others were raped or were forced into prostitution….

If one side is bad does this make the other side good? The number of civilians killed by government forces in the past year since the uprising began has exceeded 8,000, including infants. Thousands of Syrians have been forced from their homes and…

March 19th marked the sad anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Nine tumultuous years after “shock and awe,” the people of Iraq struggle to rebuild their society while dealing with the aftermath of a disastrous occupation. When the last combat brigades pulled out in December…

Many years ago, during my first biological anthropology class, I faced a major revelation: much of what we call “race” is culturally imagined, not biological fact. Of course, that’s easily forgotten after tragedies like George Zimmerman’s killing of Trayvon Martin. Indeed, I’ve heard a lot of…

How can the work of anthropologists can be more meaningfully accessible to those outside the profession, yet maintain scientific rigor? I’ve asked myself this question for years. Working as a Native Americanist (a cultural anthropologist working with Native American communities), I’ve been especially troubled about the disconnects…

In season four of Mad Men, Pete Campbell and Don Draper read The Chrysanthemum and the Sword by famed anthropologist Ruth Benedict in preparation for a pitch to Japanese Honda executives. Given their mining of anthropology for insight, a look at the show through an anthropological lens…